Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-12
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WEDNESDAY,, JANUARY 12, 1887.
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SUFFERING IN TENAs.-The following
estimate of the humber of sufferers from
the drought in Texas by counties has been
carefully made by the Fort Worth Ga
fzette. In speaking of the situation the Ga
zette says The State of Texas and its peo-
pie should face the truth in this matter re-
chievous exaggerations. There is privation
and want in certain counties that demand
immediate relief, and the truth concerning
it should be told in the interest of suffer-
ing humanity. The truth will not only
result in giving bread to those who need it,
but it will extract the mischief from eXag-
geration. But for the wholesale falsehood
that people in Texas were suffering by the
hundreds of thousands, those who were ac-
tuated by Selfish interests would not have
been able to create the, impression that no
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which imperatively calls for immediate aid,
but it is limited to certain counties, and in
these counties is due to special conditions"
A. E. Hendry, County Judge of Palo.
Pinto county and formerly member of the
Legislature from Cherokee county, was in
Fort Worth few days ago on his way to
Austin in behalf of the sufferers. Judge
Hendry admitted that he, with very many
others, did not; credit the Iirst reports OF
the suffering in his own county, but when
he took his place as County Judge the truth
came to him in way that left no doubt.
and he was astonished at the details of
want whose very existence he at first doubt
ed. Judge Hendry was participant in
the Albany Convention. The statements
from each county were submitted by coun-
ty Judges and commissioners, as the Albany
Convention would entertain none but Of
fetal reports.
In concluding its appeal the Gazette says:
"Strong men who would go away to other
localities in search of work dread to leave
wives and babies in their homes without
bread. Men who have homes paid for
grow desperate and consider whether they
county site and leave them as paupers to
be cared for while they seek work and mon->
ey and bread wherever among other COM
munities it may be found. All these coun-
ties are not suffering in the same degree
and to the same extent, but there is general
need, and in some, privation so intense
that without aid, without some recognition
Of common humanity, there may 60 out to
the world story of more bitter shame and
greater hurt to the State than any which
has occurred in the past"
The PROPOSED AGRICULTURAL STA
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Augusta Chronicle writes to that paper Of
last Saturday,
one Of the first things the Board of Agr1-
culture will have to determine this year
will be the location of the agricultural
experimental stations provided for by the;
recent Legislature. The act requires that
one of the stations shall be located in upper
Carolina and one in the lower tier of conn
ties. I am informed that very advanta-S
geous propositions will be. made, to the
board by several parties in the upper
counties. fspartanburg the Grangers are
making extensive preparations for their
interstate ehcampment. The Legislature
objected the Board of Agriculture to erect a
Lonilding at that point and make an exhibit
of the resources and products of South Caro-
lima during the Grange gathering. AS it is
proposed to hohthese encampments annu-
ally, the farmers of that section are natu-
rally anxious to have the experimental sta
,tion located there. understand they will
Offer the Board of Agriculture all the land
that may be necessity without charge, and
they will urge the acceptance of their prop
osition, and if necessary support it by ad-
ditional inducements. 1t is also said that
the Anderson people will bid for the station.
Yorkville will also be competitor and no
doubt other sections will come to the front
in due time. The law requires the board to
give ninety days notice that they will re-
ceive from counties, committees or persons,
bids or proposals to donate lands or build
ings or money for the purpose of establish
ing said experimental farms and stations, so
that every section of the State will have
ample time to prepare their proposals.
A FEARFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENTAL
dreadful accident occurred near Tiffin, Ohio,
at four O'Clock on Tuesday morning of last
week. The fast train on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, which left New York about
O'Clock Monday for Chicago, with five
coaches and four sleepers, all we'll filled
with passengers, colided with an eastern
bound freight train.
The fast train was about fifty minutes
late and was running at the rate of sixty
miles an hour. Passing Republic, a small
station, like flash, it rushed along to
curve one mile west of that town, when
suddenly the engineer saw the freight train
under full headway within one hundred
yards of him. He at once applied the
brakes and reversed the engine, but it did
no good, and the next instant the crash
came, telescoping the coaches and piling
them up on each other. To add consterna-
tion to the horrible scene, fire broke out in
the smoking car and soon spread to the
other cars. Many were killed outright,
while others, wedged in among the broken
cars, were slowly consumed by the flames.
The accident was due to misunderstand-
ing of train orders. Another statement is
that the engineer Of the freight train was
drunk. Ths1Whoie number of passengers
was 65. The number of killed was %, with
many wo9hded, :
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